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Enhancing Zambia’s Private Sector Access to Climate Finance and Participation in NDC Implementation
... from both the public and private sectors over a decade. All projections indicate that substantial contributions of ... sector and its capacity to leverage public financing. By all accounts, engaging the private sector in climate-smart ... MSMEs who contribute to at least 70% of the country’s overall GDP and 88% of employment4. It will develop and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Zambia
Enabling the National Adaptation Plan Formulation and Implementation process and other adaptation planning processes in The Gambia
... vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change. Studies indicate that The Gambia is vulnerable to climate ... proper planning and implementation are still lacking. Challenges include: i) constrained institutional, technical ... to an integrated approach to adaptation across all vulnerable economic sectors is urgently required to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Gambia
GCF Regional Dialogue with Latin America and Workshop for Direct Access Entities
... and Direct Access Entities and other strategic allies of the GCF can expect: Exchange of inspiring ... put to use in support of the region’s climate goals and challenges Engage in bilateral meetings with the GCF to ... We look forward to welcoming you in Santo Domingo! See all Regional Dialogue photos 1 / 85 Previous Next See all ...
Event > Structured dialogue Dominican Republic (the) 
SAP050 - Toward Risk-Aware and Climate-resilienT communities (TRACT) - Strengthening climate services and impact-based multi-hazard early warning in Maldives
... climate threats by providing reliable climate information, allowing early warning of climate events and supporting ... to GCF’s support of the Early Warning Systems for All initiative, drawing on its work with UNDRR and WMO and ... to climate change, facing rising temperatures, extreme rainfall, sea-level rise, and coastal flooding. These events are ...
Project > Public sector Maldives 
Closer ties and progress forged at GCF’s Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group meeting
... to strengthen the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in all GCF processes, including Locally Led Climate Action (LLCA) and REDD+ , and to advance ... organisations. At the same time, it emphasised that all activities of REDD+ and the Tropical Forest Forever ...
Article > News update 
SAP069 - Strengthening Community Resilience to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change with an Emphasis on Food Security and Gender Considerations in Priority Areas of Ecuador - FORECCSA+
... climate change, with rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns threatening productivity and food security. ... access; and consolidate territorial governance mechanisms, all with a strong emphasis on food security and gender ... Women's participation is a strategic priority across all components, with a target of at least 30 per cent of ...
Project > Public sector Ecuador 
Letter from the Executive Director: reflections and farewell
... of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), I would like to thank all of you for your support in helping GCF accelerate the ... world. Over the past four years, we have had to face the challenges of COVID-19 as well as those of political and economic crises. In the face of these challenges, though, the need for urgent climate action has ...
Article > Speech 
Resource Mobilisation
Overview Responding to the climate challenge requires collective action from all countries, cities, businesses, and private citizens. ... Among these concerted efforts, advanced economies have formally agreed to jointly mobilise USD 100 billion per year by ...
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GCF approves 11 projects at its final Board meeting of the year
... for Building the Climate Resilience of Food Insecure Smallholder Farmers Through Integrated Management of Climate ... (MoFEC). The 24 members of the GCF Board, who equally represent developing and developed countries, also took ... recording of this Board meeting is available on the GCF website . The next GCF Board meeting, B.19, will take place ...
Article > Press release 
GCF Board accelerates climate finance ahead of COP26 meeting, approving USD 1.2 billion for new adaptation and mitigation action
... 13 new projects for mitigation and adaptation action, allocating USD 1.2 billion in GCF resources for climate ... majority of new funds, 59% in grant equivalent terms, are allocated for adaptation. Just over half of the new funding ... below and more details of each are available on the GCF website . The four-day virtual Board meeting made a number ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund Board approves USD 325.2 million and policies for accelerated climate action
... are listed below and more details are available on the GCF website . The Board adopted an updated Simplified Approval ... increasing and simplifying climate finance access for small-scale projects in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and African States. A ...
Article > Press release 
GCF convenes partners to bolster climate action amid global uncertainty
... Initiatives, Acumen And many more. Please see the GPIC 2022 website for full details of the sessions and complete list ...
Article > News update 
GCF Regional Dialogue with Latin America sets to further accelerate climate action in the region
... alignment around climate investment planning for Nationally Determined Contributions, National Adaptation Plans and ... the region since closer, more regular contact is a key ingredient for successful engagement as clearly demonstrated by ... and further updates, please visit the official GCF website or contact the GCF Regional Desk for Latin America. ...
Article > News update 
GCF Regional Programming Dialogue with Asia and the Pacific: enhancing regional access to climate finance
... (AEs) responsible for implementing projects. With an audience of both DAEs and IAEs, the Federated State of ... Project-specific Accreditation Approach (PSSA), which allows a partner to gain accreditation for the duration of a ... and further updates, please visit the official GCF website or contact the GCF Regional Desk for Asia Pacific. ...
Article > News update 
Financing
Financing
A defining feature of GCF in the world of climate finance is its unique ability to tap both public and private finance flows, seeking to engage across sectors to unlock high impact and paradigm shifting...
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Policies: Operations of the Board
... Instrument sets out that the Fund will be governed and supervised by a Board that will have full responsibility for ...
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Simplified Approval Process
Overview of the SAP
Note to the public
Beware of scam emails or messages purporting to be from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) or any of its representatives that come with grant, funds, compensation, or partnership offers...
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Colombian President calls for enhanced public-private climate action
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón called for urgent public-private sector cooperation in ... or nationalities don't matter; we human beings are all one species. What happens to one, happens to all, and that's why we need to work together. As I have said ...
Article > Press release Colombia 
Beyond Paris: GCF Looks Ahead
... to prove even more demanding on the Board, Secretariat, and all of the Fund’s partners and stakeholders if it is to develop according to the Board’s wishes. Mr. Harboe recalled that it was little more than a year since GCF’s ... those pledges were converted into usable commitments, signalling that the Board could declare the Fund open for ...
Article > Press release 
Virtual meeting on oceans health and carbon sequestration
... our Ocean healthy. As well as being home to roughly 94% of all the Earth's living species, our Ocean provides food for ... for tens of millions. It also produces around half of all the oxygen we breathe and absorbs over half of all man-made carbon dioxide. We need our Ocean to survive. ...
Article > Speech
Executive Director’s remarks
... and many other International Finance Institutions, all of which have quite tailored requirements and policies ... basis in a number of areas. One of the things that we really want to do is to provide clarity to the broader system ... explorer platform which we are launching today is basically a tool that will be available for everyone to access, ...
Article > Speech
Growing ambition: the role of the Green Climate Fund in scaling up finance for climate action
... of the Wilson Center, opened the discussion with a call to action : “the climate crisis is already here, and ... finance : why does adaptation currently attract only 20% of all climate finance? The GCF’s Executive Director, ... countries and the GCF accounted for two thirds of all multilateral climate finance last year. Half of our ...
Article > Press release 
ED’s intervention at Plenary Session
... (GCF) at the SIDS4 conference and to engage in person with all the delegates from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and important partner ... for hosting this conference and their hospitality. Additionally, I join the international community in extending ...
Article > Speech
IIU signs MoU with SANBI to strengthen cooperation
... models. The objective is to sign similar agreements with all entities accredited to GCF. Songdo IIU signs MoU with ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund Board meeting kicks off in Songdo
... Partners. The Board meeting is being live-streamed here . All related documentation, including the provisional agenda ...
Article > Press release 
Zambia Board meeting opens with funding proposals on the table
... are gathered in Zambia, where the Fund is expected to start allocating some of the USD 10 billion that have been raised ... by many developing countries within their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) ahead of the Paris COP ... this month. "We need to make the Fund a viable Partner to all countries, so that we can support the implementation of ...
Article > Press release Zambia 
GCF/B.25/05 - Addressing gaps in the current portfolio for measurement
... the Secretariat proposes to make best efforts to remediate all “moderate”, “elevated” and “high” risk gaps, ... assessed to be “low” or “slight” risk. Additionally, this exercise has enabled the Secretariat to identify and extract lessons learned on challenges in implementation, which can inform further ...
Board document > Action item
27th GCF Board meeting opens: over USD 1 billion in climate finance projects to be considered
... 1 billion for climate action in developing countries. If all are approved, this would bring GCF’s current portfolio of allocated climate finance to USD 7.2 billion and a total ...
Article > Press release 
Reflections by GCF experts on latest IPCC report – a glimmer of hope?
... households, Indigenous Peoples, minority groups, and small-scale producers are hit worst by malnutrition, rising ... interventions. The risks to ecosystems – upon which all life depends - increases with every fraction of a degree ... further increment of warming will have a negative impact on all food sectors, especially in regions of high ...
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